Just weeks after he recovered from COVID-19, Al Brown, a 31-year-old father of two, suffered heart failure related to the virus. A heart transplant at UChicago Medicine saved his life.

Hundreds of patients have received lung transplants due to COVID-19 in the United States. According to data from the United Network for Organ Transplants (UNOS), in the U.S., about one in 10 lung tran...